Infrastructure Engineering Manager (Mainframe Database)

Wells Fargo•Minneapolis, MN

3d•$119,000 - $206,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Wells Fargo is seeking an Infrastructure Engineering Manager to lead teams responsible for Db2 and IMS database engineering, infrastructure, administration, and production support. The role provides technical and people leadership for enterprise Mainframe database services, maintaining platform availability, reliability, performance, security, resiliency, and software currency. The manager establishes priorities and accountability, develops technical capabilities, oversees production support, and ensures adherence to database engineering, operational, security, change-management, audit, business continuity, and disaster recovery requirements. The role drives automation, modernization, and continuous improvement; evaluates technology and vendor solutions; manages people and financial resources; and partners with application, infrastructure, cybersecurity, audit, resiliency, and vendor teams. The position offers a hybrid work schedule and is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Requirements

5+ years of Infrastructure Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, education, or a combination.
3+ years of Leadership experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading or supporting enterprise Mainframe database environments.
Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with IBM Db2 for z/OS.
Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with IBM IMS.
Experience with z/OS and Mainframe infrastructure environments.
Experience supporting highly available, business-critical database platforms.
Experience with database installation, configuration, upgrades, maintenance, performance tuning, and capacity management.
Experience with production incident management, problem management, and root-cause analysis.
Experience supporting technology risk, security, audit, compliance, business continuity, and disaster recovery requirements.
Experience driving automation and operational improvements within Mainframe database environments.
Experience managing vendor relationships and technology lifecycle or product strategy.
Strong leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills.

Responsibilities

Manage and develop Infrastructure Engineers in roles with low to moderate complexity and risk.
Lead teams responsible for Db2 and IMS database engineering, infrastructure, administration, and production support.
Establish team priorities, clarify accountability, develop technical capabilities, and maintain appropriate coverage for production support.
Provide technical direction and ensure adherence to established database engineering and operational standards.
Oversee the design, installation, configuration, maintenance, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and lifecycle management of database infrastructure.
Maintain platform availability and reliability while reducing the frequency, duration, and business impact of database service disruptions.
Oversee 24x7 production and non-production support, including incident response, problem management, and root-cause remediation.
Review high-impact outages and ensure appropriate corrective and preventive actions are implemented.
Ensure database environments meet enterprise requirements for security, change management, audit readiness, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
Oversee monitoring, alerting, capacity management, configuration management, and operational health reporting.
Drive automation and continuous improvement across maintenance, monitoring, change execution, evidence collection, and other repeatable operational processes.
Evaluate technology and vendor solutions that improve reliability, security, performance, supportability, and cost efficiency.
Partner with application, infrastructure, cyber security, audit, resiliency, and vendor teams to deliver platform objectives.
Manage the allocation of people and financial resources for Infrastructure Engineering.
Mentor and develop team members and participate in recruiting and hiring talent.
Maintain business continuity and disaster recovery readiness, including testing and remediation of identified issues.
Drive modernization and continuous improvement across Mainframe database operations.